Designer: Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA)
Location: Québec City, Québec
Area: 12,000m2
Anticipated Completion: Fall 2013

The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), has won the competition for a major expansion to the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ). The 12,000m2 new building, a cascade of three overlapping boxes at the juncture of downtown Quebec City and the historic Battlefields Park, will be OMA’s first built project in Canada. Read the rest of this entry »

The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA)
Rotterdam, NL

The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) is a leading international partnership practicing contemporary architecture, urbanism, and cultural analysis. The counterpart to OMA’s architectural practice is AMO, a design and research studio operating in areas beyond the traditional boundaries of architecture and urbanism, including media, politics, technology, fashion, curating, publishing, and graphic design. To accommodate a range of projects throughout the world, OMA maintains offices in Rotterdam, New York, Beijing, and Hong Kong. Read the rest of this entry »